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How Magu is using EFCC to blackmail we state governors-Fayose explains

The outspoken
Ekiti state Governor Ayodele Fayose , on Wednesday said the Acting Chairman of
the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission ( EFCC) Ibrahim Magu was using the
Paris Club refund to “blackmail” state governors.

Fayose made
the claim while lamenting the incessant harassment of serving governors in the
country, especially the Chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) and
Governor of Zamfara State, Abudulazeez Yari

In a
statement by by his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media,
Lere Olayinka , Fayose said “The EFCC is obviously blackmailing State Governors
on the Paris Club refunds.”

Fayose, who
said that Governor Yari, as the leader of all the State Governors in Nigeria
deserved some level of respect from “Magu and his gangs in the EFCC,” added
that “Rushing to court to seek forfeiture of properties on which no one had
been convicted and maligning the NGF chairman is to say the least,
irresponsible.”

The governor
described the “onslaught on Governor Yari as a direct attack on all the
governors of the 36 States” of Nigeria, adding that all the “governors to rise
and protect the NGF.”

He pointed
out that the Paris Club refunds was occasioned by the Federal Government’s
illegal conversion of funds belonging to the States and Local Governments,
adding that it was absurd that the Federal Government, which illegally used
money belonging to the States and Local Governments for its own purpose was the
one giving conditions as to how the refund must be spent.

“It is like
a man stealing your money and now coming back to give you conditions to refund
the money he stole and also telling you how to spend the money,” he said.

The governor
said it was the height of rascality for the EFCC to keep feeding the public
with falsehood and maligning the hard-earned integrity of Nigerians, especially
former and serving governors.

“This
persistent media trial is the reason EFCC has lost most of the high-profile
corruption cases at the law courts.

“For
instance, EFCC was the one that investigated and it was the one that went to
court to file ex-parte application, seeking interim forfeiture of N500m and
$500,000 it claimed was looted from the Paris Club refunds. No defence from any
of the accused.

“Yet,
Governor Yari is already being presented to the public as a thief by the EFCC.
This irresponsibility must stop because these attacks on the person of NGF chairman
by Magu and by extension the entire governors in Nigeria must stop,” he said.

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